Canada were exporting asbestos to India circa 2012. India has an expanding asbestos industry and a large health issue in relation to asbestos related diseases. In the UK around 4500 people die each year from asbestos related diseases. This is on the increase as well.
It is not an old mans story...
The Council have legal duties to manage asbestos in the properties that they own/manage. Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations. Same regulations also require that asbestos is identified before work starts which could disturb it, hence the survey.
This building sounds like it is a...
Asbestos (in all its forms) was finally banned in the UK in 1999. Crocidolite (blue) and Amosite (brown) were banned in the mid eighties. It is commonly found in many commercial and domestic properties as well as plant and equipment such as heating systems. Therefore any structure etc. built or...
You might enjoy some stuff posted on my Brighton and Hove by Peter Groves. I have read his articles and contacted him about the factory. There is even a picture of Gil Percy. Use the link below
http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__11437.aspx
I was at School Road in 1980. Yes remember the tab....and the pool table!!
It was a tough apprenticeship. The instructors demanded high standards. If I remember correctly KTM employer about 1500 people both at Hollingbury and at Portslade. The social club was over near boundary road....cheap...
Gil Percy put the fear of god everyone! Would like to have known him better but that was never going to happen as an apprentice. I also went to Preston Road Tech. Mr Bush was my instructor as School Road. Can't remember the other's names though. Was also trying to think of the name of the man...
John Christmas (Ithink I have his name right ) was also an instructor, along with Mick Dyer and Eric Lown. Was a good apprenticeship scheme. Spent my first year at School Road in Hove
I have just had my 98 fireblade serviced (burnt orange colour) and I also ride a black FZ1....love both bikes. The Blade is just as it rolled out the factory......completely unmolested
Top top bowler. Many more to come as well. Beefy has to be a bit sick that his record has been broken but also proud of Anderson's achievement. Glad this has been raised on NSC as cricket needs to be kept in the forefront of peoples thinking because on a grass roots level it's beginning to die...
Did he deserve his place back in the side? Didn't travel yesterday and wondered if his overall performance was good enough. Personally I would have stuck with Walton at the moment